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"JMS" <jms_pt@clix.pt> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone
>
> My scenario is the following
> two different trees
>
> First Site has 2 IpSubnets One Domain controller in each subnet, the DNS
> is AD Integrated and replicates two all Dns Servers in the same domain,
> both Domain controllers are GCs. This Site have a Tree Root Domain.
>
> Second Site has 1 Ip subnet, 1 Domain Controller is also a GC, the DNS is
> AD Integrated and replicates two all Dns Servers in the same domain, This
> site has a Second different Tree root domain.
>
> The problem:
> On 2nd Site I have condicional forwarding to domain01 (Site1), and i have
> especified the ip addresses of the two domain controllers in each
> ipsubnet.

So presumably you are running Win2003 (not Win2000) since
it is the first to support Conditional Forwarding.

> When one domain controller goes down, if I try to ping the domain01, it
> takes some time until it figure out that the domain controller is down and
> i get time out error, it takes some time until it start to ping the second
> domain that is available.
>
> Is this the normal behavior?

Not really but if these are small domain/zones you might be better
off with replication across the entire forest (all Forest DNS-DCs).

Then every DC would just hold all of the info and Conditional
Forwarding would not be an issue.



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> Thks-Regards.
>
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